Pet Food and Products
Pet Food and Products at Hornby Veterinary Centre
Sometimes your vet will recommend a prescription diet. This is to offer your pet specially formulated food to contain a beneficial balance of ingredients through things like higher or lower nutrients to help treat or manage your pet’s condition or life stage.
Somewhat confusingly a prescription diet doesn’t actually require a ‘prescription’ but is more used in the meaning of ‘an instruction’ and food can be bought over the counter in the same way as normal pet foods.
Common Reasons for Prescription Diet Food
While there are many reasons a vet may recommend a prescription diet the common ones include:
- Weight loss
- Manage kidney disease
- Food allergies
- Skin conditions
- Bladder stones
- Diabetes
- Heart disease
- Digestive problems
If your vet recommends a prescription diet this can help speed up a pet’s recovery time, improve their day-to-day life, or assist in discovering what could be triggering other conditions such as allergies.
As always if you are unsure why your pet was recommended a prescription diet please reach out to the team at Hornby Veterinary Centre.
